cgiles,

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�When you've got to play 42 concerts and gross 300 million dollars just to break even because of the cost of your 'equipment�

It is no longer music that satisfies the audience, it is the dimension of the show.

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�Somewhere, somehow, something must have gone terribly wrong. Does it really take this much to convince our audience that our music is any good? �

Many of our values have gone from value to glitter. We are now faced with �What�s really real�. Can he really play the Guitar or keyboard or sing or is it being enhanced in some other way? Is that not the question that is being asked of arranger keyboards?

John C.